The U.S. president wants to return the world to 1900, when America was nakedly grabbing everything it could, writes William J. Astore.
Trump Reboots Manifest Destiny
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Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough
John Perry reports on the U.S. secretary of state’s visit to Panama on Sunday in the context of American imperialist history in the Canal Zone and U.S. obsession with China.
Taking ‘Peace’ Out of the Nobel Peace Prize
Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee — which will name this year’s award on Saturday — has never made known his vision of peace through global demilitarization, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl.
Seven Days in September
A new book, an anonymous Op-Ed and an Obama speech in the first seven days of September appeared to reveal dangerous insider moves against a dangerous, but constitutionally elected president, writes Joe Lauria.
Ronald Reagan’s Hollow Conservatism
In the early 1990s, Republicans turned Ronald Reagan into an icon; they hailed him for “winning the Cold War;” they used his name to put conservatism beyond challenge. But this deification was hollow, a reality that today’s thoughtful conservatives, like the Independent…